9/11 Reflection

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When the terrorist attacks of 9/11 happened I was just 8 years old. The closest thing I knew to terror was what I had seen in movies. The reasons and actions those arab passengers had were completely unclear to me then and still are today, 10 years later. However, I cant use my age as an excuse for not knowing what was going on. People all over the country were totally in shock of the extreme events that were occurring. To the typical American citizen, it seemed the attacks were in every way random, so you can only imagine what was on the radio and TV seemed like to an 8 year old. Never the less, the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 gave me an experience that I'm happy to have had as a child, it gave me an understanding of horrible things people can and will do out of fear, jealousy, and revenge. Attending St. Johns the Evangelist, I was only in second grade and pretty much isolated from the rest of the world. I don't even think I knew all the capitals or even all 50 states in general. I have, of course, heard of New York by then, but when it came to where in New York this fiasco happened I didn't have a clue. I remember asking my teacher if I were to look outside would I see all the smoke on TV, probably because I had…show more content…
I don't remember clearly, but I think around that time Mrs. Peterson was us about structures around the world. Structures like Eiffel Tower, pyramids, and the Great Wall of China. So after learning about what happened to the Twin Towers I thought about it happening to all those great buildings, and my 8-year-old mind started to wonder and think about how people would be pouring out of the great wall when of course it isn't occupied by people at all. I couldn't it after seeing the images of people jumping for their lives from the top floors of the World Trade Center, and depiction I will never
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